In the 1901 census, Guy Fitzgerald Wharton (b.1985, Southampton) was living with his family at Cherwell, Westwood Road, Portswood in Christ Church parish (now Highfield). His father, John Henry James Wharton (b.1857, Gosport) was a solicitor. His mother was Edith (b.1860, Kassonli, India) and he had an elder brother, Eric Fitzgerald (b.1892, Southampton). They had 2 domestic servants; a cook, Alma Rose Noyce (b.1876, Winterslow, Wiltshire) and a housemaid, Annie Elizabeth Green (b.1878, Wareham, Dorset).Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 1068; Folio: 151; Page: 2.

The address for his next of kin, given on his medal roll card for 1915, was still the same, Cherwell, Westwood Road.

He came from a strong military family, his great grandfather had been at Waterloo. He was educated at Sandhurst and served for 5 months before he was wounded in the trenches at Verlorenhoek during the 2nd Battle of Ypres. He died the following day.He is buried at Brandhoek and there is a memorial plaque in this church.

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